Valdai Club

Ilya Kramnik

Alexander Karavayev

Valery Kistanov

Sergey Krasilnikov

Davud Kiani

Yelena Kuzmina

Alireza Khodagholipour

Yury Krupnov

Tamara Kolesnikova

Matvey Kiselev

International lawyer, member of the "Digoria" Expert Club.

Materials

What We Have, We Do Not Keep; Having Lost It, We Weep: On the Role of the EU in the Decline of International Law

The EU is no innocent bystander in the gradual disintegration of rules and norms governing foreign affairs and the collapse of the international legal order as we know it. Matvey Kiselev, international lawyer, member of the “Digoria” Expert Club, explores the Union’s self-serving track record of bending the law to the whims of a deeply entrenched “juristocracy”.

Not the IRGC Alone: What Else Is Iran’s Internal Stability Based on?

Despite the external dualism of the country’s political structure, the supra-governmental bodies allow for finding a stable balance between the interests of the individual and the state. Each of them essentially carries out the functions of a “guardian” in relation to the civil institutions under their jurisdiction, writes international lawyer Matvey Kiselev, a participant in the Valdai – New Generation project.